PTE Build 76412-pte now live (updated with new build 12/16/14)

So I created 16 unit cannons side by side it was extremely effective:

Spoiler: 16 Unit Cannon Pictures

Here they are launching:

And here they are landing:

- naval anim trees also got some weapon_index and unit_event entries
- bomber: possible new field: maintain_priority_target
- UNITTYPE_CannonBuildable
- Holtkins also had a build cost reduction (14400 -> 9600)
- nuke_launcher_ammo: possible new field stage_on_planet_handoff
- lots more secondary color choices; looks like the same (or nearly) set for every primary
- showCsgPallet - I don't see anything in game yet, but it may be coming.

If I am right, it is a 3rd power option. There is turned on, turned off, and "conserve" (which turns off automatically once negative, and turns on once positive)

ALL THOSE CHANGES are massive.

Unit cannon.
Auto power state.
Naval pass.
Towers pass.
Prioritization on air.
Artillery pass.

Tsk.... I may have to retire from these forums now that I have NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. What will I do with my life...

I found something to complain about. At least, one last thing. @jables , next time you release patch notes, be specific about important stuff like these. Man, these make it even better...

PA

Well, I am completely doing another pass on TeamComBuilder. Modding and playing will be nice.

@jables there is bug that a unit inside a unit cannon can still fire its weapon but cannot be shot

It's just me or AI seems kind a broken?

PS: Just got all 3 AI stuck on spawn for some reason, one unstuck after being attacked.

@jables please make it so that we can change the default energy/build settings on factories.

I want to set it on radar. 90% notwithstanding, they are just wasting power when there isn't enough.

Related: needs hotkey.

Mod issue: I'd like to see ambiguous secondary colors removed. I can probably work around the worst case with an equality check.



Should units in pods have ground vision?



Pathing. Probably not peculiar to PTE. He'd really like to go help that factory, if only this bloody radar would get out of the way

Giving units in pods ground vision actually opens up mod possibilities for me. I can imagine a unit that launches a unit wrapped inside a pod and reveals the area around it as it travels. Setting the stages in the deploy projectile might be enough to get it to travel to the target and hover for a few seconds before dying. The weapon could have a very limited range.

I can see there being hundreds of suggestions and bug finds in this thread... Is this really the best place to monitor everything before it goes live?

I suggest a thread in support for bugs for this PTE and a thread in balance for balance suggestions/complaints for this PTE, it might be more organised.

When I right-click target a unit, the salvo lands somewhere random on the planet.

I considered having a projectile that had no velocity and a livespan of 60 seconds and a vision of 60 or something medium, and putting it on the firefly.

That would act as a visual spycamera beacon. Pretty nifty. But I do see what you mean. Staged would also worked, have a missile that was staged, and when it reached target it changed to velocity of 0 and just hovered there.

Giving the t2 radar a planetwide weapon like that, where you have to charge it by energy, and can only use it every 60 seconds, would be amazing to probe anywhere on planet for enemy commander.

some bugs. Narwhal model randomly has a grey rectangular prism way in front of it that randomly appears and disappears. The leviathan no longer has a model. When you fire the unit cannon near the unit cannon itself the pods are launched straight up, then fall back down right beside the unit cannon without deploying the units.

In my tests I wasn't able to give vision to ammo or lifetimes to units, so my only other plans didn't work out.

You can give both to missiles.

Try giving a nuke vision of 100, and an ending stage acceleration of 60 and max&min velocity of 0.

@tvinita
Will modders be able to use "transporter" as an ammo source?

Happy that the unit cannon is sorta in, but alot more work to do on both the model, and the unit itself.

It's a hellova improvement to "on hiatus for the forseeable future with no further update on it's status or mention on it's work".

People were calling it cancelled and swept under rug and bad design anyway. No Uber dev was making comments otherwise. That was the reality as we knew it.

We just discovered an alternate reality, be happy